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We return to the bench with a couple new projects this week. First up is Andy
Mihail with his Trek bash.
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To get me back into the swing of building, I present a couple pictures of my new project, the Shelly Class ship from the Deep
Space Nine era. Sorry for the bad quality of the pics, but my scanner seems to be having some trauma.
Going by the more popular name, the Curry Class (as seen on DS9) had the inflated nacelle design of the Constitution. Thinking this as rather odd from the engineering standpoint, I'm using the existing Excelsior nacelles for my Shelly Class. Hey, different nacelles, different class!
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The neck & saucer area have received the usual putty job.
And you can also see where I have Zap'd the struts to the saucer. I angled the struts so that the bottom of the "L" is horizontal & parallel with the saucer's bottom edge. And to make sure I had them on straight, I taped the saucer to my cutting mat (using the impulse engines as a guide), used a triangle & lined up the nacelles along the measuring lines on the mat. They glued on nice & straight!
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I got the Excelsior model off of eBay & it had all it's parts but one- the deflector dish scoop.
Solution? Thank goodness for kids, as I used the scoop from my daughter's old medicine measuring spoon. I cut off the handle & volia! It fit rather well!
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The other side of the picture shows my solution of the neck area.
Since few pictures of the Shelly class exist that clearly show the neck area, I had to be creative. I lined up the neck to where it should be, but then noticed it was hanging over the tapered sides. Instead of triming the neck, I extended it down the hull by adding successive layers of sheet styrene. This shot shows the layers before trimming. I also "filled in the holes" that were left by the removal of the oval nacelle strut area & the indentation for where the neck should have been placed.
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Now we review a project
that Marc King did. This is his pattern work for the Mockingbird Lane kit from Creature Arts. This kit can be found at the Cult Hobbyshop.
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Here are pics of the munster house in progress, all the walls are complete except for the little back room and porch at the
rear. Many sources were used to accomplish this finished look, there were aerial shots from the Universal Studios backlot, as well as front shots of what the house looks like now and then during the
taping of the show. I also incorperated some inspiration from the TV Homes book that showed what the interior of the house might have looked like had it been for real. .
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Next comes the roof pieces, as you can see I made up one of each of the individual windows then cast however many I needed to
fill in, all the pieces interlock and have locating pegs at the base of the walls that correspond to holes in the floor of the base
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For constructing the cupola I started with an octagon piece of styrene the same size as the base, then I cut one smaller about
half the size and elevated it up from the bottom piece using a section of styrene tube. Next I cut out 8 pieces with the corresponding profile and attached these between the two plates. Atop this I added
the cone shape that I vacformed.
All of the dimensions were based on studying the drawings and photos and were approximated. This basic shape gave me the structure I needed to add the textured
sheet panels to, much like a real house would be constructed then roofed over. The little peak piece is just a styrene rod shaped. For the rails I used U channel styrene, marked off the hole centers
every 2/32" then drilled them out.
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A section was cut for the top and bottom plates, then I added randomly cut "dowels" of styrene rod to form the
raillings. Once everything was squared up I glued everything together, after it dried I just cut off the excess and sanded the top and bottom plates smooth.
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These are photos of the almost completed Munster house. I've just finished the roof sections and have some decorative trim work
to add yet, as well as a few windows in the back kitchen portion and the front porch. All in all I feel that I've achieved the right look. There's alot of plastic in this little model let me tell ya!!
I've engineered the whole thing to sort of snap together. There's no glue or tape holding anything together in the photos.
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The completed model can be seen in the SFTV section of the site
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